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A long time ago, Dave Taylor left id to create Crack dot Com. They then wrote the game "Abuse" using C++ and a lisp variant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuse_(video_game)

http://lispgames.org/index.php/Abuse

Although, from the FAQ:

http://abuse.zoy.org/wiki/doc/faq

"Approximately seven percent of the game engine and Abuse combined is Lisp code. The rest is C++."



Abuse, good memories. It's one of the games (other being StarCraft and Unreal Tournament) which pushed me into learning programming as a kid. Funny that after 10 years I suddenly remembered that I had my first Lisp exposure over a decade before I learned about the language itself - it was by browsing Abuse data files.




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